The Verge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

To help make scheduling dedicated work blocks a bit easier, Google is adding new dedicated focus time entries to Calendar. Image: Google. Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge. It can be hard to block off focus time during the workday. Here’s what making a focus time entry looks like.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Ankur Sinha , who spent the past two years as an engineering director at Google, joined remittance company Remitly as its chief technology officer. Sinha, based in Seattle, most recently oversaw Google Cloud’s commerce capabilities. Ankur Sinha. Remitly Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

This week, he unveiled nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization, TrueMedia.org , that is developing an AI-powered tool to detect AI-generated deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. Audio editing by Curt Milton.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 11, 2021

That’s the question new research from Seattle biotech startup Lumen Bioscience and Google aims to answer. million project with CARB-X , a nonprofit supporting the development of new antibacterials. (Lumen Photo). Can machine learning help spur the production of algae-based biologics?

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Google is launching an initiative to provide more than $150 million to promote education and equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines, the company announced today. Google launched the vaccine information panels in search last month in the UK , listing information on each individual vaccine. Early data in the U.S.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2021

“Set your working location to make scheduling easier.” | Image: Google. Google is adding an option to its Calendar service to let you show where you’re working on any given day of the week, the company has announced. Google Calendar’s new feature should help here. Image: Google.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2021

Image: Google. Google Meet, Google’s answer to video calling services like Zoom, is getting a collection of helpful tweaks to its hand-raising feature as part of ongoing updates to Workspace. Image: Google. The new hand-raising animation. That a participant’s hand will be automatically lowered after they speak.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Google is walking back plans to replace third-party cookies with FLoC by instead proposing the Topics API, a new system for interest-based advertising. Google says that these categories “are selected entirely on your device” and don’t involve “any external servers, including Google servers.” Image by Google.

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Dataconomy

JULY 27, 2023

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, four of the biggest AI firms, have founded a new industry association to ensure the “safe and responsible development” of so-called “frontier AI” models.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

Alphabet shareholder Trillium Asset Management is pushing Google to adopt better whistleblower protections in light of the firing of prominent AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru. Google claims she violated its security policies. That’s why the safety of whistleblowing is so important.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2022

Google has harnessed Perspective for automated moderation before. Jigsaw itself has also been criticized for a toxic workplace culture , although Google has disputed the claims. In a Medium post , the team says it’s hoping developers can tailor it for other at-risk social media users. “Our

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GeekWire

JULY 12, 2023

The City received pro-bono support from the Google.org Fellowship program , a part of Google’s philanthropic arm that provides technical expertise to help nonprofits and civic entities solve technical challenges. Smart Cities Connect named CiviForm one the 50 most transformative smart projects of 2023.

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Venture Beast

JUNE 30, 2020

Tech giants joined universities and nonprofits and backed a national AI research cloud, something supporters say will help the U.S. innovate and compete. Read More.

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GeekWire

APRIL 26, 2024

Rader previously spent more than a decade at Google, including as head of sales for Google Cloud, and most recently worked for HighRadius. She joined the nonprofit in 2022 after stints with Spokane International Airport and Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories. Kelly Fukai was named chief operating officer at WTIA.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Ferris joined Google in 2011, where he works on transportation and urban-mobility technology for Google Maps. The nonprofit adds that additional money would help with new hires and “a long list of enhancements” that they’d love to make to apps and systems.

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Vox

JULY 14, 2023

A Google office in Canada in 2016, when relations between the company and the country were friendlier. Google says it will do the same, and conducted its own link-blocking test run in February. Meta and Google don’t want to back down, pay up, and set a further precedent. This is going to set the tone.”

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Gizmodo

MAY 27, 2020

Court of Appeals in Washington dismissed a lawsuit that claimed major tech companies including Twitter, Facebook, Google, and Apple worked together to “intentionally and willfully suppress politically conservative content” online. According to Bloomberg , the federal appeals court said nonprofit group… Read more.

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GeekWire

JUNE 28, 2023

Microsoft is partnering with OpenAI and competing against tech giants including Amazon and Google in the race to capitalize on the growing wave of generative AI technologies in software and online services. The skills initiative includes what Microsoft calls the first Professional Certificate on Generative AI in online learning.

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GeekWire

MARCH 24, 2024

. … Read More Microsoft names DeepMind co-founder and former Google exec as its new CEO of AI Microsoft added some big names to its AI leadership Tuesday with the hiring of Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind and a former Google vice president of artificial intelligence, to lead a new organization called Microsoft AI.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This Google video of Gemini was revealed to have been heavily edited, raising questions about real capabilities of the new AI model. Google Video) In the past year, generative AI has taken the world by storm. Google is promoting Gemini as natively multimodal. The subsequent media response has been less than generous.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

It became the most downloaded free iOS app by the end of May and a top 10 download on the Google Play Store. Nonprofit media watchdog Common Sense Media has labeled Zynn a “ pyramid scheme.”. Social media accounts claiming to be operated by Zynn say the company is “in communications with Google and working to fix this ASAP.”.

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GeekWire

MARCH 18, 2022

Prior to her current role at Alphabet, Thuener worked for Google as its chief accountant from 2013 to 2018. She is also co-chair of Girls Leadership, a nonprofit that serves girls in grades K-12. Thuener has nearly three decades of experience in marketing and accounting.

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The Verge

AUGUST 21, 2021

Samsung devices that support Samsung Pay can now store digital versions of users’ COVID-19 vaccination cards, through a partnership with healthcare nonprofit The Commons Project, the smartphone company announced. In June, Google opened up Android’s built-in passes system to let Android users store a digital vaccine card , on their phones.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Increasingly, that’s seen as a problem by researchers and by nonprofits scratching their heads at why they’re seeing fewer people donating. That’s the assumption that the nonprofit sector is now reexamining. That has puzzled researchers and nonprofits. But it only counts donations to religious and nonprofit organizations.

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The Verge

JANUARY 21, 2021

Alphabet, the parent company of Google, launched Loon in June 2013 , and Loon “graduated” from a moonshot to an independent company within Alphabet in 2018. Teller says that Loon is working to place employees in other roles at X, Google, and Alphabet. “A Loon’s service in Kenya will run until March, an X spokesperson tells The Verge.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Reports overnight indicate that a conflict between Altman’s ambitions for OpenAI and the mission of the nonprofit were at the core of the board’s decision to oust him as CEO and remove OpenAI co-founder and President Greg Brockman as chairman. At the event, on Nov. The developer day was an issue.

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The Verge

JUNE 15, 2020

Even emoji now have nonbinary options, with both Google and Apple releasing gender inclusive icons last year. Apple introduced 328 emoji, and Google launched 53. Facebook has supported nonbinary gender designations since 2014, and a number of dating apps have already introduced the feature, including Tinder, OkCupid, and Grindr.

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Vox

JULY 28, 2023

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Meta President Nick Clegg, Inflection AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google’s President of Global Affairs Kent Walker, and Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith at the White House. Will they share the wealth? There’s a lot of money in AI.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

Image: Google. Google has announced that Gmail’s new layout, which changes how Google Chat, Meet, and Spaces are integrated, will be available to try starting in February; become default by April; and become the only option by the end of Q2 2022. Image: Google. Image: Google.

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

“The extensive targeting of American nonprofits exercising their first amendment rights is exceptionally troubling,” Citizen Lab’s report says. The extensive targeting of American nonprofits exercising their first amendment rights is exceptionally troubling”.

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GeekWire

MARCH 28, 2024

Kleha has previous experience at Google, Zendesk, Airtable and Figma, where she was most recently a chief customer officer. Hoffman previously held multiple executive leadership positions at StartX, a nonprofit founder community for Stanford University entrepreneurs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 26, 2022

That’s just one major drive under way by the nonprofit golf association, which is also delivering myriad tournaments and events, special services, and classes to its 28,000 members, a roster including celebrities, national golf pros, golf coaches, amateur players, and people who work in the golf industry, says PGA of America CTO Kevin Scott.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

As a nonprofit, Signal doesn’t receive financial support from any advertisers or shareholders, a new blog post notes , and relies on users for donations. Secure messaging app Signal has launched a new feature that allows users to make donations within the app, the company announced.

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GeekWire

APRIL 3, 2024

Schramm comes from Google, where she spent nearly a decade in various human resources leadership roles, most recently as vice president of people strategy. She also previously worked at the Gates Foundation as a deputy director, and at Amazon as head of talent acquisition for AWS.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Facebook blocked dozens of charity groups, nonprofit organizations, and even random big box retailers in Australia late Wednesday (early Thursday, local time), a move that appears to be collateral damage from Facebook’s ban on news in the country. Facebook even briefly blocked its own page in Australia, according to … Read more.

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CTOvision

JUNE 6, 2014

Fight for the Future , a nonprofit that advocates for digital rights and Internet freedom, is spearheading an anti- National Security Agency protest on June 5 th to Reset the Net. Notable supporters of the initiative include Greenpeace, Google, Reddit, the ACLU, DuckDuckGo, and Amnesty International. By ShannonPerry.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The company was originally founded as a nonprofit focused on AI research in 2015. That allowed investors to pour money into OpenAI and potentially earn a return on it, though their profits would be capped, according to the rules of the new setup, and anything above the cap would revert to the nonprofit.

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